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Setting clear course expectations
For many students, an online course marks a big change from a traditional classroom. This change can be even more challenging for students with physical or learning disabilities, as they can feel disconnected from their instructor and other support systems. The Brightspace provides course designers with flexibility in how…
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Making flexible time limits and deadlines
In some cases, course designers may put users with learning and physical disabilities at a disadvantage without intending to. Usually, disadvantages result from users not having enough time to complete tasks or not having appropriately designed resources. Consider using the following best practices to organize course…
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Providing alternative learning materials
To improve student engagement, one of the most effective course design decisions you can make is to offer course materials and assignments that appeal to more than one sense. For example, the same material can have an audio, video, and text component. This type of redundancy helps engage students with different learning…
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Compliance to accessibility standards in HTML-authored content
An accessibility checker is available within Brightspace Editor for use within Content, Widgets, Quizzes, Assignments, Calendar, Assignments, and any other tools where you can access the Editor. The accessibility checker is available in the top bar within Brightspace Editor. After you add content in Brightspace Editor, you…
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Directing learners to accessibility resources
It is a good practice to provide learners with information about how to find accessible information and additional support: * In Brightspace account settings, there are a number of settings that can be adjusted to improve accessibility. These user preferences are controlled by individual users, and can be set to the…
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Scenarios for creating release conditions to increase accessibility in courses
You can use Special Access and Release Conditions to set criteria around the availability of content, which can be useful for accommodating students with other needs. The following scenarios provide examples of when release conditions or special access can improve accessibility: * Create groups for students with special…
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How assistive technology interacts with the inline grading experience
Screen readers and keyboard-only navigation provide the same information as pointer-based navigation (such as using a mouse or trackball). The interaction of the arrow keys on the evaluation slider indicate a focus state. When the focus is on a criterion level, the description appears below the slider. Figure: If the focus…
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Access course content using the ReadSpeaker docReader integration
Access course content using ReadSpeaker to seamlessly consume text-based content as an audio file. Supported document types for ReadSpeaker docReader The ReadSpeaker DocReader integration provides audio rendering of supported document types in the Content tool. If your organization has enabled this feature, you can hear…